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Washington Post: Use the Source -- The Linux story

"Linux began life in 1991 as the part-time project of a grad
student in Finland, Linus Torvalds, who wanted to create a free
version of the industrial-strength Unix operating system... Since
then, it's grown from one hacker's hobby to an operating system
used by millions of people worldwide.

"Why has it succeeded so quickly? One, it's free... Two, its
source code... comes with the operating system itself..."

"Linux is even a culture in its own right. It has a mascot --
the pudgy penguin that adorns most Linux Web sites."